Quotes About Innovation

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.

Let's blow some stuff up.

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

That's what I'm interested in doing: making stuff that's going to blow kids' minds for the first time.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid.

Our goal is that everything we do blows people away.

When I started working with a computer, to me it was kind of like animating with a backhoe. But when you see the results, it just blows your mind.

Blue Shift' is a game that I'm very proud of.

Black people created rock music, it's a fact. Black people created bluegrass and rock and roll way before Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

When you have a blueprint doesn't mean you can't add another room.

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.

Blues purists may hate what I do sometimes because it's a little dirtier.

Who's to say a blues man can't play rock and roll?

I love jazz and blues, where there's a structure, but a lot of the cool stuff is veering off the page and playing.

Black people have always loved the blues - they basically created the blues.

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.

Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day - like, right in the center of your image board.